[ale] Fedora Core 2 Question

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Aug 4 20:56:33 EDT 2004


Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2004 09:42, lisk at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
>>I'm more of a hobbyist when it come to Linux than a system administrator
>>type.  I have a dual boot system using GRUB to boot to either Windows 98se,
>>the default choice (because the rest of my family insists) or Fedora Core
>>1.  I'm trying to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 using CD's with the iso images
>>downloaded from Redhat.com/fedora.  My problem is that even though I have
>>set my computer's BIOS to boot from the CD, it seems to bypass the CD and
>>go to GRUB and from there I have to either boot to W-98 or Fedora Core 1.
> 
> 
> Related or not? I bought Fedora Core 2 from Cheapbytes.
> Disk One will not boot. Disk Two does, then you have to insert disk 1 to 
> continue the install. 

I can't recall the distro, might be SuSE, anyway, the directions say 
that if disk1 won't boot, try disk2.  Disk2 will then prompt for disk1.

I think it has something to do with the 'age' of the hardware.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995



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